Social determinants of the onset of puberty in rodents
作者:
VandenberghJohnG.,
期刊:
The Journal of Sex Research
(Taylor Available online 1974)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 3
页码: 181-193
ISSN:0022-4499
年代: 1974
DOI:10.1080/00224497409550849
出版商: Taylor&Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
AbstractThe age at which female mice attain puberty depends to a large extent on their prior experience with male stimuli. Females exposed to male odors mature more rapidly than those denied access to the smell of a male. Such an odor can be termed a priming pheromone because it sets in motion a chain of physiological events which, in this case, culminate in puberty. The demonstration that a social factor such as a pheromone can influence the rate of sexual development in the mouse may have implications for man. It seems likely that a complex of stimuli, certainly not odors alone, may have contributed to the accelerated rate of human sexual maturation which has occurred during the past century.
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